Re: Is the New LX Going to Be a Digital Camera

[Doctor Digi]

> It is 24x36. Phillips says they can make them any size up to the
> size of the wafer (6 inches diameter). Anyone ready for full
> frame 4x5? I imagine the yield would be very low for such a
> chip. Kodaks 6MP chip is 22x34, or the size of a mounted slide.
> --Tom


Probably not as low as you might think - from what I have read the Phillips
chip is actually composed of several CCD chips stitched together in some
special (presumably patented ;-) way. This means they can build large chips
from small waffers.

The yield in this case would seem to be better. But then I'm not a
statistician.

doctor digi



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